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ECONOMIES OF AMERICAN CITIES
American cities are in trouble, the recession is straining cities' ability to meet their financial needs causing them to cutback on essential services, implementing hiring freezes and layoffs, delaying capital expenditures.The way out is to increase taxes or fees or both. The impact to businesses and the financial markets is harsh with 80% (CNN Estimate) in trouble.
Can the stimulus package or big government stop the trend? Will the further decline put a larger drag on the predicted financial recovery of the nation? Will reduction in services drive higher crime and further deterioration?
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Mayors Issue Annual Report on Hunger, Homelessness in Cities Washington, D.C. - December 8, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) —...
The project finds that, across the United States, recession or recovery very much depends on where you happen to live.
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In the Portland area, as in other large American cities, immigrants contribute to the local economy in proportion to...
Forbes Magazine recently named Oklahoma City one of the “Fastest-Recovering Cities in America,” the Greater Oklahoma...
Boston may be the Hub of the Universe, but it’s also near the top of a new list of America’s most expensive cities to...
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Los Angeles county is in the middle of an unprecedented hunger crisis with over 1 million people confronting hunger and...
San Jose is the fourth safest city in the U.S., according to a report published by CQ Press and based on 2008 crime...
In Houston, the Texas Medical Center is expanding so quickly that it will soon become the seventh largest downtown in...
In many ways, it’s like a ghost town. It’s eerily quiet. Driving around in the middle of the afternoon, in a city that...
2009. It has not seen positive ground since March 2007. ------POSITIVE VIEWS ON------- NATIONAL PERSONAL BUYING W/E CCI...
Pittsburgh mayor Luke Ravenstahl, just seven years out of college, is igniting ire with his plan to levy a 1 percent...
I'm riding into Louisville from the airport this morning (I was in town to give a speech to the local CFAs), and I...
The U.S. Supreme Court put the final nail in the coffin of a lawsuit against the city of Patterson this week when it...
It seems college degrees really do pay off, not just for the graduates but also for the cities in which they live, work...
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